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Society (see "'Proceedings/^ Vol. VIII., No. IV., page 150), has been 
subsequently named by Sir Samuel Baker the " Albert Nyanza.^" 
The same state of desolation having been reported to exist on 
the line of route to the margin of the lake, his half-famished men 
rebelled against further advance, and the party consequently retraced 
the route they had pursued, and returned to our station at 
Wayo. 
The statement of Amabile, in the first instance, and now cor- 
roborated by Abd il Majid and Mussaad, proved to me that the 
time appointed by the Boyal Geographical Society for the arrival 
of Captain Speke (June, 1862), could not be kept. It therefore 
appeared to me that my engagement with the Boyal Geographical 
Society was virtually fulfilled, as stated in Paragraph 4 of my in- 
structions ("Proceedings,^^ Vol. V., No. 1). "It being further 
understood that in the event of Captain Speke not having arrived 
by that time at Gondokoro, Consul Petherick shall not be bound 
to remain beyond June, 1862.^^ 
Although at this stage I believed myself perfectly justified, as far 
as my connection with the Boyal Geographical Society was con- 
cerned, to have given up any further proceedings and returned to 
Khartoum, yet, in consideration of the ties of friendship connecting 
me with Captain Speke, the promise I had made to him during his 
last days in England, "that I would under no circumstances as 
long as I had life desert him in the interior, and that I would keep 
stores and boats for him at Gondokoro for an indefinite period,^^ I 
felt it my duty under any circumstances, however adverse, to 
proceed to his relief. 
That Speke evidently was under the impression that I would 
continue my search until I met him, even if that took two or three 
years to achieve, and that he could thoroughly depend upon me. 
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